Tag: snowboarding

Two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan is now in the Winter X Games record books. On Saturday, McMorris placed first in the men’s big air snowboarding competition at the Winter X Games Norway in Oslo. With Read more

Canadian Olympic silver medalist Laurie Blouin of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec won the gold medal in a women’s slopestyle snowboarding World Cup in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday. It was one of two medals won by Canadian snowboarders on Sunday as Liam Brearley Read more

Canadian Olympic silver medalist Laurie Blouin of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec won a silver medal in a World Cup women’s slopestyle snowboarding competition in Mammoth Mountain, California on Saturday. For Blouin, who won the silver medal in women’s slopestyle snowboarding at the Read more

Team Canada won eight medals in Olympic events at the 2020 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado this past weekend. However unlike years past, competitors were just given a placement based on overall impression instead of an actual score. At Read more

Eliot Grondin of Ste-Marie, Quebec won his first ever World Cup snowboarding medal on Saturday. Grondin placed second at a World Cup snowboard cross competition in Big White, British Columbia. Grondin and Kevin Hill of Chilliwack, British Columbia were both Read more

Brooke Voigt of Fort McMurray, Alberta won a bronze medal in a World Cup slopestyle snowboarding competition in Seiser Alm, Italy on Thursday. For Voigt it was her ninth World Cup medal and sixth in slopestyle. Voigt posted a Read more

Canada came through with two bronze medals on Wednesday at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Team Canada won the bronze medal in men’s hockey and Liam Brearley of Gravenhurst, Ontario won the bronze medal in men’s Read more

Andrew Longino of Calgary, Alberta has won Canada’s first gold medal at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Longino won the gold medal in the men’s halfpipe skiing competition. Longino was one of two Canadians to medal Read more

Liam Brearley of Gravenhurst, Ontario and Florence Brunelle of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec each earned medals for Canada on Monday at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Brearley won silver in the men’s slopestyle snowboarding and Brunelle won bronze Read more

Canadian Oympic gold medalist Sebastien Toutant of L’Assomption, Quebec won the gold medal in a World Cup slopestyle snowboarding competition in Laax, Switzerland on Wednesday. Toutant, who won the gold medal in big air snowboarding at the 2018 Olympic Read more